ReStory profit and tools — money, rent, parts and upgrades

What the money loop officially looks like

The official Steam description confirms the financial frame: you greet customers, take their devices in for repairs, “manage your finances,” and shop for spare parts. Orders come in both in person and online, and parts hunting runs through a Y2K-era in-game web browser — a deliberate period touch the announcement calls out as its own feature.

The release-date announcement, as reported by Gematsu, also ties story choices to your bottom line: customer decisions affect “both their lives and your shop.” So money in ReStory is not a separate spreadsheet from the narrative — some financial outcomes appear to flow through dialogue. How large those effects are is not yet verified.

If you have not seen how a repair actually plays out end to end, read the repair workflow guide first — every income source below sits on top of that loop.

Costs observed in the demo

Firsthand press time with the Steam Next Fest June 2026 demo gives the only concrete numbers available, and they are demo numbers, not launch facts:

• Rent: 2,000 yen weekly, paid for a small shop space rented from a landlord the preview describes as sketchy. This is the one fixed cost documented so far.
• Starting equipment is minimal: a screwdriver, a brush, a barely-working computer and shelf space. Everything beyond that has to be earned.

No repair payout amounts, part prices or upgrade costs have been published officially, so we do not list any.

What earning money unlocks

The Shacknews preview describes the spending side of progression as observed in the demo, with menus hinting at much more in the full game:

The preview explicitly notes “a much longer roster of devices, licenses, and tools” locked behind the demo’s limits, so treat this table as the visible floor of the system, not its ceiling.

Parts strategy: the one tested trick so far

The only profit-adjacent tactic with a firsthand source is spare-part preparation. The Shacknews previewer began “ordering duplicate devices to strip for spare components” before jobs required them — buying cheap broken hardware as a parts reservoir instead of ordering each component reactively.

That is a demo observation, not verified launch economics: whether donor devices stay cheaper than individual parts in the full game is exactly the kind of number we will test after release. But it tells you the design supports proactive sourcing, which pairs naturally with the intake rhythm covered in the beginner guide.

Not yet verified

The following have no official source yet and are deliberately absent from this page: repair payout amounts, part and donor-device prices, license costs and their unlock order, the best early-game money route, whether rent scales over time, and any penalty for missed payments. The game launches August 6, 2026 on PC via Steam; this page will be rechecked against the release version and updated with tested numbers only.